Democratising Clinical AI through Dataset Condensation for Classical Clinical Models

This paper introduces a differentially private, zero-order optimization framework that extends dataset condensation to non-differentiable clinical models, enabling the creation of compact, privacy-preserving synthetic datasets that facilitate the democratization of clinical data sharing without compromising model utility.

Anshul Thakur, Soheila Molaei, Pafue Christy Nganjimi, Joshua Fieggen, Andrew A. S. Soltan, Danielle Belgrave, Lei Clifton, David A. Clifton2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

M3GCLR: Multi-View Mini-Max Infinite Skeleton-Data Game Contrastive Learning For Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

This paper proposes M3GCLR, a game-theoretic contrastive learning framework that addresses limitations in existing skeleton-based action recognition methods by establishing an Infinite Skeleton-data Game model with a mini-max optimization strategy and dual-loss equilibrium optimizer to effectively handle view discrepancies, adversarial mechanisms, and augmentation perturbations, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.

Yanshan Li, Ke Ma, Miaomiao Wei, Linhui Dai2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

SPAARS: Safer RL Policy Alignment through Abstract Exploration and Refined Exploitation of Action Space

SPAARS is a curriculum learning framework for offline-to-online reinforcement learning that safely improves policies by initially exploring a low-dimensional latent space to ensure sample efficiency and stability, then seamlessly transitioning to raw action space to bypass decoder-induced performance ceilings, thereby achieving superior results over state-of-the-art baselines on both robotic manipulation and locomotion tasks.

Swaminathan S K, Aritra Hazra2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

ICDAR 2025 Competition on End-to-End Document Image Machine Translation Towards Complex Layouts

This paper presents the ICDAR 2025 competition on end-to-end document image machine translation, detailing its dual-track structure for small and large models, participation statistics, and findings that highlight large-model approaches as a promising paradigm for handling complex document layouts.

Yaping Zhang, Yupu Liang, Zhiyang Zhang, Zhiyuan Chen, Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Reviving ConvNeXt for Efficient Convolutional Diffusion Models

This paper introduces the Fully Convolutional Diffusion Model (FCDM), a ConvNeXt-based architecture that achieves competitive generative performance with significantly fewer computational resources and training steps than Transformer-based counterparts, demonstrating that modern convolutional designs remain a highly efficient alternative for scaling diffusion models.

Taesung Kwon, Lorenzo Bianchi, Lennart Wittke, Felix Watine, Fabio Carrara, Jong Chul Ye, Romann Weber, Vinicius Azevedo2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

PromptDLA: A Domain-aware Prompt Document Layout Analysis Framework with Descriptive Knowledge as a Cue

This paper introduces PromptDLA, a domain-aware framework that leverages descriptive knowledge as cues to customize prompts for integrating domain priors, thereby overcoming the limitations of directly merging diverse datasets and achieving state-of-the-art performance in Document Layout Analysis across multiple benchmarks.

Zirui Zhang, Yaping Zhang, Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao, Feifei Zhai, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

From Flow to One Step: Real-Time Multi-Modal Trajectory Policies via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation-based Distribution Distillation

This paper proposes a real-time multi-modal trajectory policy framework that distills a Conditional Flow Matching expert into a single-step student using Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation and a bi-directional Chamfer distance, thereby eliminating the latency of iterative ODE integration while preserving multi-modal action diversity for high-frequency robotic control.

Ju Dong, Liding Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yu Fu, Kaixin Bai, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Zhenshan Bing, Zhaopeng Chen, Alois Christian Knoll, Jianwei Zhang2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Investigating Gender Stereotypes in Large Language Models via Social Determinants of Health

This study investigates gender bias in Large Language Models within French healthcare contexts, demonstrating that these models rely on embedded stereotypes when processing interactions between gender and other social determinants of health, thereby highlighting the need for context-specific assessments that go beyond evaluating individual factors in isolation.

Trung Hieu Ngo, Adrien Bazoge, Solen Quiniou, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, Emmanuel Morin2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Open-World Motion Forecasting

This paper introduces "Open-World Motion Forecasting," an end-to-end class-incremental framework that predicts future trajectories directly from camera images while mitigating catastrophic forgetting through pseudo-labeling with vision-language models and a novel query feature variance-based replay strategy, enabling continual adaptation to evolving object taxonomies in real-world autonomous driving.

Nicolas Schischka, Nikhil Gosala, B Ravi Kiran, Senthil Yogamani, Abhinav Valada2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

AI Act Evaluation Benchmark: An Open, Transparent, and Reproducible Evaluation Dataset for NLP and RAG Systems

This paper introduces an open, transparent, and reproducible dataset and methodology for evaluating NLP and RAG systems on EU AI Act compliance, featuring tasks like risk classification and obligation generation that leverage large language models to address regulatory ambiguities and achieve high performance scores.

Athanasios Davvetas, Michael Papademas, Xenia Ziouvelou, Vangelis Karkaletsis2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

A Guideline-Aware AI Agent for Zero-Shot Target Volume Auto-Delineation

This paper introduces OncoAgent, a novel guideline-aware AI agent that achieves zero-shot, training-free auto-delineation of clinical target volumes by converting textual clinical guidelines into 3D contours, demonstrating superior adaptability and physician preference over traditional supervised deep learning models.

Yoon Jo Kim, Wonyoung Cho, Jongmin Lee, Han Joo Chae, Hyunki Park, Sang Hoon Seo, Noh Jae Myung, Kyungmi Yang, Dongryul Oh, Jin Sung Kim2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

An Empirical Study and Theoretical Explanation on Task-Level Model-Merging Collapse

This paper identifies and theoretically explains "task-level merging collapse," a phenomenon where incompatible task representations cause catastrophic performance degradation in merged LLMs, demonstrating that representational incompatibility—not parameter-space conflicts—is the primary driver of failure and establishing fundamental limits on task mergeability via rate-distortion theory.

Yuan Cao, Dezhi Ran, Yuzhe Guo, Mengzhou Wu, Simin Chen, Linyi Li, Wei Yang, Tao Xie2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

EvoDriveVLA: Evolving Autonomous Driving Vision-Language-Action Model via Collaborative Perception-Planning Distillation

EvoDriveVLA is a novel Vision-Language-Action model for autonomous driving that overcomes perception degradation and planning instability through a collaborative distillation framework combining self-anchored visual constraints and oracle-guided trajectory optimization to achieve state-of-the-art performance.

Jiajun Cao, Xiaoan Zhang, Xiaobao Wei, Liyuqiu Huang, Wang Zijian, Hanzhen Zhang, Zhengyu Jia, Wei Mao, Hao Wang, Xianming Liu, Shuchang Zhou Liu, Yang Wang, Shanghang Zhang2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI